Components are forever decreasing in size and this has the unfortunate consequence that there is also less space for the clear marking of the part type or value. So short codes are used instead, but ...

Many SMD components, including some USB C ports, have their terminals under the component. When installed, the pins are totally hidden. So, how do you solder or unsolder them? That’s the prob… ...

While for some of us it’s a distant memory, every serious electronics hobbyist must at some point make the leap from working with through-hole components to Surface Mount Devices (SMD).

I competed in the soldering competition at the Hackaday Superconference last year which aims to see how fast you can solder up the SMD Challenge kit from makersbox. Dan Maloney did a nice little ...

This application note concisely presents recommendations for engineers designing a PCB for mounting SMD terminations, attenuators, and resistors.

In this paper, we present the application of the novel fluxfree soldering process for assembly of standard SMD components on a PCB. A standard SAC305 (Sn-3.0Ag-0.5Cu) type 3 powder is mixed with a ...

This paper proposes a surface mount device (SMD) classification method for printed circuit board (PCB) assembly inspection machines. The package types of SMD components must be classified to create a ...